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CYRUS WRITES:Funeral home is on Page home site More elucidation on the Page House/Page home issue An article about the Grissom Funeral Home in the November 26, 1941 edition of the Adair County News states that "In 1936 Mr. [M.L.] Grissom bought the spacious old colonial residence owned by the late J.T. Page..." Perhaps the key word in the above quote is "residence." In his "An Adair County Kentucky History," Vol 1. page 208, author Michael C. Watson notes that one Benjamin F. Waggener was granted license in 1826 to run a tavern, and that "This tavern was in a building on a lot currently occupied by the Courthouse Annex parking lot. This was later a hotel operated by James T. Page." Watson further notes that Page sold it to Luther Grissom, and the building later burned. (Information from "An Adair County Kentucky History" used with permission of the author.) The location given in Watson's work seems consistent with the "North west Corner, public square" location mentioned in the cutline accompanying the photo of Mrs. Murphy's painting. After the (former) Page House hotel burned, another hotel, known in later years as the New Adair, was built on the same corner, and it too burned, in the 1970s, I believe. Additions /corrections most welcome! -CYRUS This story was posted on 2006-06-04 06:56:28
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